The EU Enlargement and Gay Politics: The Impact of Eastern Enlargement on Rights, Activism and PrejudiceKoen Slootmaeckers, Heleen Touquet, Peter Vermeersch Springer, 2016 M06 23 - 238 pages This book offers a well-investigated and accessible picture of the current situation around the politics of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) rights and activism in Central Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of the enlargement of the European Union (EU). It provides not only thoughtful reflections on the topic but also a wealth of new empirical findings — arising from legal and policy analysis, large-scale sociological investigations and country case studies. Theoretical concepts come from institutional analysis, the study of social movements, law, and Europeanization literature. The authors discuss emerging Europe-wide activism for LGBT rights and analyze issues such as the tendency of nationalist movements to turn ‘sexual others’ into ‘national others,’ the actions and rhetoric of church actors as powerful counter-mobilizers against LGBT rights, and the role of the domestic state on the receiving end of EU pressure in the field of fundamental rights.
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... Kulpa (2014) has called a 'leveraged pedagogy' (Kulpa 2014; see also Kulpa and Mizielińska 2011). Through this leveraged pedagogy, Western Europe condemns candidate countries as not sufficiently European or modern to merit full ...
... Kulpa and Mizielińska 2011; Kulpa 2014; Ammaturo 2015), even though it is clear that LGBT rights can be, and often are, politicized as inherently European (see e.g. the chapters that address domestic opposition to LGBT rights in the new ...
... Kulpa and Mizielińska 2011 have clearly argued in their edited volume). In light of these critiques, we have asked our contributors to remain sensitive to local expressions of identity. Hence, although LGBT appears in practically all ...
... Kulpa, R. (2014). Western leveraged pedagogy of Central and Eastern Europe: Discourses of homophobia, tolerance, and nationhood. Gender, Place Culture A Journal of Feminist Geography, 21(4), 431–448. Kulpa, R., & Mizielińska, J. (Eds ...
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